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Author Gonzalez, Jerry, 1978- author.

Title In search of the Mexican Beverly Hills : Latino suburbanization in postwar Los Angeles / Jerry Gonzalez
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages)
Series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Latinidad.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Lands Of MaƱana -- 2. Mexican Americans And The Suburban Ideal -- 3. El MAPA To The Suburban Ideal -- 4. Suburban Renewal -- Epilogue: Let'S Take A Trip . . . -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author
Summary "Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world--a multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley--and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2018)
Subject Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles Suburban Area
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Mexican Americans
SUBJECT Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.) -- History
Subject California -- Los Angeles Suburban Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017029748
ISBN 9780813583181
0813583187
9780813583174
0813583179
0813583160
9780813583167
9780813583150
0813583152